(68) Leto

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 24548:

   (68) Leto
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5    (M-c)          Bowell
M  25.42756              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21240438     Peri.  303.81036     +0.97344204     +0.20741244
a   2.7820210      Node    44.43841     -0.13587332     +0.86410877
e   0.1852174      Incl.    7.95575     -0.18425262     +0.45858054
P   4.64           H    6.78          G   0.05
From 456 observations at 46 oppositions, 1879-1992, mean residual 0".59.

An explanation of the orbital elements is available.

These orbital elements are also available in forms suitable for loading into a number of popular planetarium-type software programs.

Ephemeris

The following ephemeris is at intervals of five days. A daily ephemeris covering the same time interval is also available.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
 
2002 09 23    05 41.86   +26 12.5    2.291    2.562    93.8    23.0    11.9
2002 09 28    05 45.96   +26 30.0    2.236    2.572    97.8    22.7    11.8
2002 10 03    05 49.47   +26 47.6    2.182    2.581   101.9    22.3    11.8
2002 10 08    05 52.36   +27 05.5    2.128    2.591   106.2    21.7    11.7
2002 10 13    05 54.58   +27 23.7    2.075    2.600   110.6    21.1    11.6
2002 10 18    05 56.09   +27 42.4    2.025    2.610   115.2    20.2    11.5
2002 10 23    05 56.85   +28 01.5    1.976    2.619   120.0    19.2    11.5
2002 10 28    05 56.83   +28 21.0    1.931    2.629   124.9    18.1    11.4
2002 11 02    05 56.00   +28 40.7    1.889    2.639   130.0    16.7    11.3
2002 11 07    05 54.36   +29 00.3    1.850    2.648   135.3    15.3    11.2
2002 11 12    05 51.93   +29 19.6    1.816    2.658   140.8    13.6    11.1
2002 11 17    05 48.73   +29 38.1    1.788    2.668   146.4    11.8    11.0
2002 11 22    05 44.84   +29 55.3    1.765    2.677   152.1    10.0    10.9
2002 11 27    05 40.35   +30 10.9    1.748    2.687   157.8     8.0    10.8
2002 12 02    05 35.36   +30 24.3    1.737    2.697   163.4     6.0    10.7
2002 12 07    05 30.02   +30 35.1    1.734    2.707   168.5     4.1    10.6
2002 12 12    05 24.51   +30 43.2    1.738    2.716   172.1     2.9    10.5
2002 12 17    05 18.99   +30 48.5    1.749    2.726   171.5     3.1    10.5
2002 12 22    05 13.65   +30 51.0    1.767    2.736   167.4     4.5    10.6
2002 12 27    05 08.63   +30 51.0    1.793    2.745   162.1     6.3    10.8
2003 01 01    05 04.07   +30 48.9    1.825    2.755   156.5     8.2    10.9
2003 01 06    05 00.09   +30 45.1    1.864    2.765   150.8    10.0    11.1
2003 01 11    04 56.80   +30 40.2    1.909    2.774   145.2    11.7    11.2
2003 01 16    04 54.23   +30 34.6    1.960    2.784   139.7    13.2    11.3
2003 01 21    04 52.43   +30 28.7    2.015    2.793   134.3    14.6    11.5
2003 01 26    04 51.40   +30 22.9    2.076    2.803   129.1    15.8    11.6
2003 01 31    04 51.12   +30 17.5    2.140    2.812   124.0    16.9    11.7

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